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█▓▒░ "Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?"
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Oh man, this one hurts.
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/val-kilmer-dead-batman-forever-tombstone-1236354606/
I've always loved Val Kilmer. I mean, the guy is just one of _those_ actors, man; one of those special ones that comes along every now and then. Just a really cool personality. Great on-screen presence who's involvement in a film is always welcome.
But for me, my favorite role of his has to be Chris Knight in 'Real Genius'.
Man, I watched that film _obsessively_ as a kid. Real Genius was one of the first VHS tapes I'd ever purchased with my own money. I wore that fucker out. Not just being a great film in its own regard, but I also kind of looked up to Chris as a role model, of sorts?
Now, if you know the movie, Chris Knight is a brilliant genius. I am not.
But his friendly, flagrant disregard for authority and playful, fun-loving spirit as a coping mechanism for pressure left a lasting impression on me.
"Moles and trolls, moles and trolls, work, work, work, work, work. We never see the light of day. We plan this thing for weeks and all they want to do is study. I'm disgusted. I'm sorry but it's not like me, I'm depressed! There was, what, no one at the mutant hamster races. We only had one entry into the Madame Curie look-alike contest and he was disqualified later. Why do I bother?"
Thanks, Val.
GIF
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TONIGHT
Everybody welcome, just turn up!
LIVE @UCLAnthropology and on ZOOM
Tues Mar 11, 6:30pm (London UTC)
Chris Knight on
'On women and jaguars: why perspectivism got it so wrong'
Across Amazonia, myths hold that in early times it was the jaguars, parrots, tapirs and other animals who first invented bows and arrows, cooking fire, ceremonial buildings, religious ceremonies and other complex cultural accomplishments. Then humans stole these things from the animals, elevating themselves above all other creatures – but at the cost of losing their former ability to engage in easy conversation with the animal world. This mythic view of our origins is the reverse of the Darwinian narrative which our own culture holds up as science.
In this talk, #ChrisKnight will introduce a recent trend in social anthropology – known as ‘perspectivism’ – and discuss whether such radically different ways of perceiving our origins and place in nature can be made to converge.
Chris will be speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor of UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW. Come in good time by 6:30pm before doors close please. You can also join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak
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TONIGHT!!
Everybody welcome, just turn up!
LIVE @UCLAnthropology and on ZOOM
Tues Feb 18, 6:30pm (London UTC)
Chris Knight talks on
'How we got stuck: The hunter Monmanecki and his wives can teach Graeber and Wengrow a lesson'
'The Dawn of Everything' argues that human political arrangements got stuck when divine kings and other patriarchal despots began to confuse paternal care with coercive control. Drawing on insights provided by an Amazonian myth, #ChrisKnight argues that the decisive changes occurred much earlier than Graeber and Wengrow suppose. Gender politics got stuck when patriarchal forms of marriage and residence took over, disconnecting women from their former freedom to choose where to live – a freedom in turn linked with the periodicity of the moon.
Chris will be LIVE in the Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor of UCL Anthropology Dept. Come in good time by 6:30pm before doors close please. You can also join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak
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Recording of our excellent talk with #ChrisKnight and #JeromeLewis on 'When Eve Laughed'
Our own #ChrisKnight has a special ZOOM diary date today talking with students in #Islamabad on #humanevolution, #languageorigins, #Engels and more!
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TONIGHT!!
Our Spring Term of Radical #Anthropology starts
6:30pm London time.
Everybody welcome, just turn up! LIVE or ZOOM
Tues Jan 14 gregorian 18:30 (London)
with #ChrisKnight and #JeromeLewis
LIVE @UCLanthropology + on ZOOM
'When Eve Laughed: The origins of language'
"Why, out of 220 primate species, are we the only one which talks? Laughter, too, is unique to our species. Although different from language, collective, contagious laughter may have set the scene for words + grammar to evolve by establishing the necessary bonds of trust. In addition to the latest archaeological research, this talk will draw on hunter-gatherer studies to show how men learn to communicate with birds and beasts and how women use laughter as a levelling device."
#humanorigins #language #ritual #symbolicculture
LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor of the UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak
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Last RAG session before Xmas!
Everybody welcome, just turn up!
LIVE or ZOOM
TONIGHT!!
Tues Dec 10 18:30 (London UK)
with #ChrisKnight
LIVE @UCLanthropology
And on ZOOM
'An Xmas Fairytale: the Shoes that were Danced to Pieces'
LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor of the UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak
This delightful fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm has become a RAG tradition, told every year on the last day of the autumn term, just before Christmas. It tells of twelve princesses and their periodic trips to the underworld, the narrator treating patriarchal marriage as a cruel punishment imposed on a coalition of sisters who had previously been free to dance the nights away. This magical tale introduces us to universal mythological themes which will be explored more fully in the Spring Term. Chris Knight shows how these tales make sense if human sexual morality was initially established by women.
#fairytale #femalecoalitions #kinship #marriage
Chris is speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept. Get there in good time by 6:30 pm before doors close.or join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak.
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TONIGHT!
Everybody welcome, just turn up!
LIVE or ZOOM
Tues Dec 3
18:30 (London UK)
with #ChrisKnight and #JeromeLewis
LIVE @UCLanthropology
And on ZOOM
'Modern metaphors from political resistance movements applied to human evolution'
LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor of the UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak
Jerome Lewis and Chris Knight will be discussing the final chapter of their book on the topic of importing modern industrial political action as models for human evolutionary strategies. How can such ideas address an Indigenous voice to make them relevant?
#strikeaction #directaction #picketline #humanorigins #symbolicculture #red #ritual #solidarity
They are speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept. Get there in good time by 6:30 pm before doors close.or join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak.
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TONIGHT!! LIVE session
Facilitated by the 
!
Tues Oct 29, 18:30 (London UK)
with #ChrisKnight
LIVE @UCLanthropology
'Decoding Fairytales: into the Forest with Red Riding Hood'
RAG EMERGENCY! Change of programme
this will be a LIVE only participatory workshop
@UCLanthropology
We are having to delay our session with Ingrid Lewis on BaMbendjele polyphony. We are really hoping it will happen next term, so people will get experience of forest singing. Instead, we will be journeying into the forest with Red Riding Hood and other fairytales...
Please come along for some forest magic!
LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor of the UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW
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Social anthropologist #ChrisKnight uses another source of indigenous voice – #Amerindian mythology – to interrogate Graeber and Wengrow’s oscillatory model, addressing their key question about ‘how did we get stuck?’ A structuralist binary lies at the heart of these mythic discourses, beating to a lunar cyclical rhythm. Although Graeber + Wengrow pay little attention to indigenous myths, he discerns ‘an uncanny fit’ between their ‘getting stuck’ thesis and a worldwide motif central to myths -- a preoccupation with loss of periodicity and movement between worlds. This is taken to a high degree of elaboration in the #Tucuna story ‘The hunter Monmanéki and his wives’ which opens 'The Origin of Table Manners', Vol 3, Lévi-Strauss’s 'Mythologiques'. The animal wives move through an algebraic sequence of structural oppositions, more and more handicapped by the increasingly absurd demands of patrilocal marriage. The last wife literally flies apart, split into 2 halves. This story's Amazonian voice explains how we ‘got stuck’.
#anthropology #Amazonia #myth #structuralism #Mythologiques #LeviStrauss
https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/hgr.2022.6
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This evening, everybody welcome!
Tues Oct 8, 18:30 (London UK)
with #ChrisKnight
LIVE @UCLanthropology and on ZOOM
'The Science of Mythology: The Sleeping Beauty and other tales'
Everybody welcome FREE, LIVE and online!
Just turn up!
Chris Knight will be speaking
LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor of the UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW
You can also join us on ZOOM (ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak)
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TONIGHT
Tues Oct 1, 18:30 (London UK)
with #ChrisKnight and #CamillaPower
LIVE @UCLanthropology and on ZOOM
'The Sex-strike Theory of Human Origins'
Everybody welcome FREE, LIVE and online!
Just turn up!
Chris Knight and Camilla Power will be speaking
LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor of the UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW
You can also join us on ZOOM (ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak)
'The first Word was spoken by a woman. It was ‘No’. Acted out in sounds and gestures and exploding into a chorus of laughter, it was a signal to the male sex that their behaviour needed to stop.
Chris Knight and Camilla Power explain how menstrual bleeding was constructed as the world’s earliest taboo and how blood-red ochre came to symbolize ritual potency as our species emerged.
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Our first class of the Autumn Term open to all!
THIS EVENING 6:30 London
Tues Sept 24, 18:30 (London UK)
with #ChrisKnight
LIVE @UCLanthropology and on ZOOM
'Did matriarchy ever exist?'
Everybody welcome FREE, LIVE and online!
Just turn up!
Chris Knight, founder of Radical Anthropology Group and author of 'Blood Relations: Menstruation and the origins of culture' will be speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor of the UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW
You can also join us on ZOOM (ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak)
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TONIGHT
Everybody is welcome!
Tuesday March 19 6:30pm London time
we have #ChrisKnight
'Trust, digitality and the hunter-gatherer cradle of language'
FREE, LIVE @UCLAnthropology and on ZOOM (details below 
)
http://radicalanthropologygroup.org
Chris will be speaking in the Daryll Forde Seminar Room, 2nd Floor of the Anthro building. Please use main entrance of the Archaeology Institute in Gordon Square and someone will help direct you across to the Anthro building.
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TONIGHT 
Tuesday Feb 13, 6:30pm London time
we have #HelenaTužinská (Comenius) and #ChrisKnight (UCL) on
'The Three Enchanted Princes: Ritual syntax and the interpretation of fairytales'
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http://radicalanthropologygroup.org
Helena and Chris are speaking in the Daryll Forde Seminar Room, 2nd Floor of the Anthro building.
NB due to building work, you need to use the main entrance of the Archaeology Institute round the corner in Gordon Sq. Please plan to arrive between 6:15-6:30 if possible.
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Recording of the 
Snake talk on Jan 23 with #ChrisKnight(we had some Zoom issues at the start but stick with it, gets better!)
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TONIGHT Jan 23, 6:30pm London time
we have #ChrisKnight on
'The Australian Aboriginal Rainbow Snake'
FREE, LIVE @UCLAnthropology and on ZOOM
http://radicalanthropologygroup.org
Chris is speaking in the Daryll Forde Seminar Room, 2nd Floor of the Anthro building.
NB due to building work, you need to use the main entrance of the Archaeology Institute round the corner in Gordon Sq. Please plan to arrive between 6:15-6:30 if possible.
#myth #Australia #initiation #RainbowSerpent #menstruation
#anthropology #Yolngu #ArnhemLand
Images are from bark paintings of the Myth of the Wawilak sisters
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TONIGHT!! 
Tues Jan 16, 6:30pm London time we have #ChrisKnight on
'The story of the Bird-Nester. An introduction to the science of mythology'
FREE, LIVE @UCLAnthropology and on ZOOM
http://radicalanthropologygroup.org
Chris is speaking in the Daryll Forde Seminar Room, 2nd Floor of the Anthro building.
NB due to building work, you need to use the main entrance of the Archaeology Institute round the corner in Gordon Sq. Please plan to arrive between 6:15-6:30 if possible.
#myth #LeviStrauss #structuralism #Bororo #Birdnester #anthropology #Amazon
Image is an engraving of a Bororo funeral ritual by Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert.
